This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1113 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1113 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dill is commonly used in what? A) Turkish coffee. B) Meringue. C) Madras curry. D) Borshch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Borshch. 2. Big Ben, the bell installed in the clock tower for the British Houses of Parliament in 1856, was named after whom? A) Sir Benjamin Hall. B) Benjamin Disraeli. C) Ben Johnson. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Benjamin Hall. 3. During the production of the Disney animated feature "Fantasia", what nickname was given by the animation department to the unnamed sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment? A) Abracadabra. B) Yen Sid. C) Gandalf. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yen Sid. 4. Where is Le Touquet? A) In the Mediterranean Sea. B) On the Bay of Biscay. C) Facing the English Channel. D) Near Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Facing the English Channel. 5. The Strait of Otranto is the narrow passage between which two bodies of water? A) The Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ionian Sea. B) The Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea. C) The Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean. D) The Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea. 6. In the nursery rhyme, who could eat no fat, and whose wife could eat no lean? A) The Duke of Gloucester. B) Jack Sprat. C) The Grand Old Duke of York. D) Jack Horner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jack Sprat. 7. Who was the criminal released by Pilate in preference to Jesus on the demand of the Jerusalem mob? A) Spartacus. B) Barabbas. C) Ben Hur. D) El Cid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barabbas. 8. Which Scottish architect, buried in Westminster Abbey, is famous for staircases, fireplaces, chimney pieces, and furniture built in residences in the 18th century? A) Ian Athfield. B) Inigo Jones. C) Robert Adam. D) Christopher Wren. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Adam. 9. Which of these is an example of the law of conservation of momentum? A) The recoil of a gun. B) A stone rolling down a hill. C) A waterfall. D) Ice skating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The recoil of a gun. 10. What religion is the Dalai Lama? A) Hindu. B) Christian. C) Muslim. D) Buddhist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhist. 11. Which planet has a diameter of 7, 520 miles (12, 104 km) and a mass 0.82 times that of the Earth? A) Mars. B) Saturn. C) Mercury. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venus. 12. How many countries border Brazil? A) 10. B) 12. C) 11. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 13. 11 November is marked in many countries as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in time of war. Why has that date been selected? A) The beginning of World War II. B) The D Day landings in World War II. C) The end of hostilities in World War I. D) Adolf Hitler's birthday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The end of hostilities in World War I. 14. The Sunken Valley off the south-west coast of Tasmania, and coastal Fiordland on the south-west coast of Aotearoa New Zealand share what quality? A) Dense abalone populations. B) Immediate and sheer drop to a very deep sea bed. C) Normally deep-sea marine life lives within 40 m (131 ft) of the surface. D) The waters are close to boiling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Normally deep-sea marine life lives within 40 m (131 ft) of the surface. 15. Where would a fatberg be found? A) In butter-making. B) In septic tanks. C) In a circulating debris-filled ocean gyre. D) In sewers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In sewers. 16. Which is closest to the prevailing climate in Mongolia? A) Humid. B) Dry. C) Wet. D) Temperate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dry. 17. Who succeeded Sir William Howe as Commander in Chief of the British forces in 1778 during the American War of Independence? A) Richard Howe. B) Sir Henry Clinton. C) Lord Cornwallis. D) Benedict Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Henry Clinton. 18. Which of these is a book by Oliver Goldsmith? A) The Pastor of Dibley. B) The Bishop of Casterbridge. C) The Vicar of Wakefield. D) The Curate of Marston Moor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Vicar of Wakefield. 19. When was the first written record of the name which British Honduras chose when it became independent from the UK in 1981? A) 1510. B) 1677. C) 1825. D) 1597. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1677. 20. Which of these has had a distinct National Olympic Committee since 1950 and competed at the Olympic Games from 1952, although it has been only a colony and a "region", but never a nation? A) Goa. B) Taiwan. C) Macau. D) Hong Kong. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hong Kong. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books